Who Is Thomas J. Dilorenzo's The Problem With Socialism

To inform the American people of the corruption and flawed ways of socialism, Thomas J. DiLorenzo wrote “The Problem with Socialism.” DiLorenzo is an accomplished author and economist. Thomas J. DiLorenzo has written much more than just “The Problem with Socialism” including but not limited to having written for publications such as The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The main theme of Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s book “The Problem with Socialism” is that socialism doesn’t work anywhere in the world and never will. Thomas J. DiLorenzo clearly sees the different economies of socialist governments past and present. From that DiLorenzo derives his thesis, concluding that socialism undermines, and ultimately destroys the hard work of men. During
One key concept that DiLorezo makes note of is the continuing objective that socialism contributes to making a man lazy. In “The Problem with Socialism” DiLorenzo mentions that socialism almost destroyed America. Referencing the pilgrims in Virginia and in Massachusetts, DiLorenzo describes their initial failures as being caused by their socialist government. Physically strong men were expected to labor for long hours day after day, and to receive a pay that was very dissatisfactory with regards to how much work they put in.These laboring men were doing the work for all of the other pilgrims, but had their goods distributed to people who didn’t work for it. This created the incentive to work lower than the amount of work needed, because the many were letting the few strong men toil all day. This allowed people to be lazy, and collect benefits from those who worked
Production decreases because people are not getting paid for their hard work. In the article “Why Socialism is a Problem” Ebeling has the same outlook explaining that, “socialization would undermine and fundamentally weaken the close connection between work and reward that necessarily exists under a system of private property”. This would happen because there is no true benefit to hard labor with less payoff. Man is known to be selfish and if they are working some type of reward is part of their goal. “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work” was a common phrase during the twentieth century throughout the Soviet Union because in all reality when people are not getting rewarded for their labor, what is the point? DiLorenzo also notes these facts in his book, making the connection with not only Soviet Union, but also Great